The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-19
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

THE latest way to spell Koran is Qnoran.
They will get it right bye and bye.
SENATOR QUAY is not great orator, but he
is reputed to be of the most terse and vigor-
of writers.
MISSIONER is said to be almost fre ndless be-
cause of his quarrelsome disposition. His health,
also. is now bad.
A RECENTLY published volume of selections
from Virgil contains map of hell to accompany
the sixth book of the Aneid.
MILE. JEANNE HUGO who is now quite grown
up. is accounted of the most beautiful
young women In Paris society
AN Australian doctor eases up the bereaved
family by advertising that he will pay half the
funeral expenses in where he is not sue
cessfuL
Mr. CHARLES G. LELAND-"Hans Brett
mann"-latey read before the Royal Society Of
Literature, in London, a paper ''The Lit
erary Training of the Memory and of the Eye"
LARRY JERoME's recipe for keeping cool at
this time of the yenr is to keep away from tick
ers horse races and base ball matches, and read
the news about them all in the next mornings
papers.
h NEW sxpenny illustrated magazine. to be
named Atalanta, will shortly be issued in En-
gland. John Ruskin will write its introduction.
and Andrew Lang and Rider Haggard will con-
tribute to the first number.
THE Hon. A. E. Maxwell, who has just been
made Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, of
Florida, after holding various State Offices was
elected to Congress in 1852 and again in 1854.
In 1862 he was elected to the rebel senate.
THE branch oleomargarine laboratory of the
government at Chicago will soon be in working
operation. DR.. Starkel, formerly in charge of
the laboratory at Washington, has been placed
in charge of the Chicago branch.
THE clergy of Pueblo. Mexico. have collected
over 5000 900 for the coronation of the Virgin of
Guadalupe next December. 1t is estimated
that the total contributions of all the Catholics
of the country will amount to ST. 500, 000
PRINCE FERDINAND, who has been chosen to
the Bulgarian throne, is described as an ambi-
tious and fearless young man whom cares and
troubles will not deter from accepting the posi-
ton offered to him. He is. however thoughtful
and cautious far beyond his years. and will take
no step without careful consideration.
IT is not generally known that Henry s. Well
come, the author OF .sThe Story of Metlakahta,
which has made such a sensation, is a MEM
Der OF the firm of Burroughs IL Welcome. drug
gists' specialties, of London, and that it is not
many years ago that he was an emrloye in the
drug house Of McKesson 81 Robbins. of New
York city.
IT is rather an amusing circumstance that the
Objectionable sentence, 20. my country, what
calamity for the South when the assassin's bull
let struck down Abraham Lincoin!" which made
unpleasant q sensation in the congregation Of
the Rev. DIR. Bacon. in Savannah, was actually
quotation from o speech made the day before at
Gettysburg by an exconfederate Colonel.
AN ingenious person has found a new varia-
ton on the fneer-oowl theme in the shane OF
two tiny gold Watering. POTS which are filed
with rose water and passed around 10 tho guests,
who shower their fingers with them. In the
East il requires three servants to perform this
arduous dnty-one TO carry the bowl one to